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title: "Mention the difference between statistical AI and Classical AI ?"  
description: "Mention the difference between statistical AI and Classical AI ?"  
author: "Jivika Rai"  
published: 2017-11-25  
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category: "technology"  
tags: ["artificial intelligence", "statistical ai", "classical ai"]  
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# Mention the difference between statistical AI and Classical AI ?

Mention the [difference](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157114/good-news-or-bad-news-and-the-difference-is) between statistical AI and Classical AI ?

## Answers

### Answer by Saddiya  Anwar

**Artificial Intelligence**, the most conversing and trending term of digitization!

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There are several disputes followed by the true meaning of artificial intelligence. As some say, artificial stands for false because it's not a human whereas, other says that artificial is the creation of humans, not a natural occurring so, it is true that it is artificial. The scientific community has not confirmed to either of the concepts though. \
**So, what does AI really means?** [**Artificial Intelligence**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72271/which-company-launched-its-first-artificial-intelligence-chip-spring-hill) advances the computer's understanding by making its thinking pattern similar to humans thinking. As a result, we get human-like actions and better and faster solutions to our problems from a machine. AI helps the machine to use experience for learning, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks. \
**Now, know the difference between statistical AI and Classical AI.** **Statistical AI** arises from machine learning which tends to be more concerned with "inductive" thought given a set of patterns, induce the trend. Whereas, **Classical AI** is more concerned with deductive" thought given a set of constraints, deduce a conclusion. In simple terms, Classical AI is the type of intelligence that symbolic and oriented to logic and language processing. Another difference between the two is that statistical AI prefers C++ language while LISP is involved in classical AI. \

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